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Out in the wilderness
wild and drear,
Sadly I’ve wandered
for many a year,
Driven by hunger
and filled with fear,
I will arise and go;
Backward with sorrow
my steps to trace,
Seeking my heavenly Father’s face,
Willing to take
but a servant’s place,
I will arise and go.
Back to my Father and home,
Back to my Father and home,
I will arise and go
Back to my Father and home.
Why should I perish
in dark despair,
Here where there’s no one
to help or care,
When there is shelter
and food to spare?
I will arise and go;
Deeply repenting
the wrong I’ve done,
Worthy no more to be called a son,
Hoping my Father
His child may own,
I will arise and go.
Back to my Father and home,
Back to my Father and home,
I will arise and go
Back to my Father and home.
Sweet are the memories
that come to me,
Faces of loved ones again I see,
Visions of home
where I used to be,
I will arise and go;
Others have gone
who had wandered, too,
They were forgiven,
were clothed anew,
Why should I linger
with home in view?
I will arise and go.
Back to my Father and home,
Back to my Father and home,
I will arise and go
Back to my Father and home.
O that I never had gone astray!
Life was all radiant
with hope one day,
Now all its treasures
I’ve thrown away,
Yet I’ll arise and go;
Something is saying,
“God loves you still,
Tho’ you have treated
His love so ill,”
I must not wait,
for the night grows chill,
I will arise and go.
Back to my Father and home,
Back to my Father and home,
I will arise and go
Back to my Father and home.
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